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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 13, 1908.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

Serial No. 415,793.

To aZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, VAN Donn KIPLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vest Union, in the county of Fayette and State of Iowa, have invented new and use` ful Improvements in Door-Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in door-hinges, and the object of my invention is to provide a hinge which shall be selfalining to the jamb, and having special securing means and other modifications of struct-ure such as are adapted to render the tting of the hinge in place easy as well as accurate. This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter fully described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figures l and 2 are elevations of my improved hinge as secured to a door and it-s jamb, the former representing the door as swung open and the latter the said door closed against the jamb. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of said hinge taken on the line cc-g/ in Fig. l. Fig. a is a perspective of the hinge member cc as disengaged from the parts and Z. F ig. 5 is an elevation of the removable pintle p of the hinge. F ig. 6 is a perspective of the part f as separated from the hinge member c-c.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

My improved hinge consists of the members Z and f having' projecting knuckles Z and f respectively adapted to receive a pivotepin or pintle a in a well-known manner. One end only of said pintle a is shouln dered, so that the hinge may be reversed by simply withdrawing the pintle and then reintroducing it in said knuckles from the opposite end. Beside the members Z and f I use a plate c adapted to overlap one face of the member f, such plate also having knuckles c to register with the knuckles Z and f of the members Z and f at each end of the hinge, the plate c, after forming such knuckles c, being bent at a right angle to the member f, the member f being introduced between the alined parts of c and secured thereto by the rivets o. The plate c is centrally cut away at Za so as to uncover' all of the outer face of the member f but its margin, the space thus provided being a little larger in extent than the area of the member Z, so that when the latter is closed against f it lies in such cut-away space as indicated by the dotted line in Fig. l. The member Z in practice is made about twice as thick as the plate c, so as to provide for a close Contact with the member j' at all times, or when the door shrinks or warps.

In hanging a door (Z, the hinge is placed so that its member f fits into a recess m in one vertical edge of said door, the corner of the door fitting into the rentrant angle of the parts f and c', and alining itself with the hinge. The parts are then secured to said door by screws-s and t respectively.

In order to render it unnecessary to channel the jamb z', I have adopted the following described means whereby the hinge may be alined with such jamb. In parallel alinement with the pintle a, I punch a plurality of orilices g in the member Z, so as to leave a lip or tongue a extending from each of said orifices on the side of Z which is to contact with said jamb, such tongue extending at a right angle with the member Z and having its tip curved and pointed slightly so as to engage and enter. the outer face of the liamb when the member Z is litted thereover. The angle of the member Z and tongue n is perforated to receive a screw 7L, which runs into the angle of the j amb obliquely, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to prevent the hinge from pulling apart from the jamb. Zhen the tongues n are set over the angle of the jamb, they cause the hinge to rest in proper alinement upon said j amb, at which time the screws ZL may be driven home, and, the door CZ being swung out, the screws s are set in place to secure the member Z to the inner face of the jamb z'. The ineurved points of the tongues n enter the wood of the jamb and secure the member from displacement before it is fastened by the screws s. It is obvious, therefore, that my invention reduces the labor of fitting a door, and alining it'to its casing. The hinge is reversible, and needs no recessing of the j amb. To receive any projecting parts of the heads of the obliquely-directed screws L, I provide orifices c in the member The number and proportions of parts of my invention may be varied to suit the purpose and location of the door or doors to be hung, and the self-aiming means may be varied specifically without departing from the principle embraced in my invention and without departing from the scope of its pro-V tection.

Having described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by- Letters Patent, is:

l. A door-hinge, comprising members pivoted together, one of such members having on one side a socket adapted to receive the other member when such members are closed together and on the other side self-alining means for securing such member to a door, and the other member having a plurality of alined spurs for alining and attaching it to a door-jamb.

A door-hinge, comprising pivoted members, each member having self-alining means for securing them respectively to a door and to a supporting jamb, and one of such members having a depression adapted to register with and receive therein the other member when such members are closed together.

3. A door-hinge, comprising pivoted members, one member having self-alining means for engaging it to a door-jamb and also having means for securing it to the angle and to the two meeting surfaces at such angle of such j amb.

l l i 4. A door-hinge, comprising pivoted members, one member having self-alining means for engaging it to a door-jamb, the other member being partly covered by an overlaid plate which is recessed to receive the firstmentioned member when such members are closed together, said overlaid plate also extending about suchsecond-mentioned meinber to form sel-alining means on the other side thereof adapted to engage such member to a door, spurs thereon for attaching and alining the Erst-mentioned member to a door-jamb, and means for securing the second-mentioned member to a door.

5. A door-hinge, comprising pivoted members, one member having a depression to receive the other When such members are closed together, the depth of such depression being less than the thickness of such received member.

` VAN DORN KIPLE.

Titnesses WM. E. FULLER, F. E. HoY'r. 

